[silence] Composers who use lots of silence

[mIEKAL aND]

I did a project a number of years back called Radio Caterpillar which
was set up as an email "radio station".  Participants mailed their
submissions to the list.  Sometimes there was weeks or months of
silence between a submission.

~mIEKAL

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Graham Urquhart
<gurquhart@madasafish.com> wrote:
> An extreme realisation is Malfatti and Taku Sugimoto's /Futatsu.  /Disc
> 1 is 71 mins of largely digital 'silence'.  I'm guessing that the sound
> generated noise would be less than a few minutes in totality with very
> long silences in between each note.
>
> http://www.japanimprov.com/imjlabel/508-9/
>
> Also:
>
> Bernard Gunter,
> http://www.bernhardguenter.com/
>
> Richard Chartier
> http://www.3particles.com/
>
> and Steve Roden
> http://www.inbetweennoise.com/
>
> all spring to mind.
>
> Graham
>
>
> Thanos Chrysakis wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> ...as has been mentioned already...
>> Radu Malfatti fits the bill very well
>> with "tons" of silence:
>>
>> http://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/monthly2007/04ap_text.html
>>
>> Also, check the late Luigi Nono:
>>
>> especially :
>>
>> Fragmente-Stille, An Diotima [string quartet]
>> and
>> Quando stanno morendo,
>> Diario Pollacco No.2
>> for 4 female voices, Bass flute, cello and live-electronics
>>
>>
>> Best,
>> Thanos Chrysakis
>>
>>
>>> Radu Malfatti started out as an improvising trombonist, but some of
>>> his recent compositions use the same time bracket notation as Cage's
>>> number pieces.   I have the score for a solo piano piece, and it's
>>> even more sparse than Cage.  The EFI site has a page for him, but it
>>> deals mostly with his improv work.  More info on his compositions is
>>> at Timescraper, http://www.timescraper.de/malfatti/index.html.  He
>>> runs his own label of made-to-order CDRs called b-boim.  I haven't
>>> heard any of these, but there are brief descriptions at Mimaroglu
>>> (http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/labels/b-boim.html), although
>>> there are other distributors.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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